Laundry sundry.



H. L. KINGSLEY.

LAUNDRY SUNDRY.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE I6, 1914.

1,141,345 Patented June 1, 1915.

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rin'rrn HORACE L. KINGSLEY, 0F EACINE, WISCONSIN.

LAUNDRY SUNDRY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 1, 1915.

Application filed June 16, 1914. Serial No: 845,437.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HORACE L. KINGsLEY, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Racine, in the county of Racine and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Laundry Sundries; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention consists in what is herein particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims of this specification, its object being to provide simple, economical and efficient readily detachable shape-retainers for stiff-starched and laundered cuff-ends of shirt-sleeves during the time the shirts are in the stock of a manufacturer, jobber, retailer or wearer, said shape retainers being sundries for the laundry trade and designed to prevent breaking of the cuffs in which they are inserted, said cufis being attached to the shirts instead of being what are known as detached cuffs.

Other forms of the same invention in its broadest sense are set forth in my application Serial No. 876,332, filed December 9, 1914:.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a partly broken full line elevation of a laundry sundry designed as a detachable antibreak shape-retainer applied in a cuff-end of a shirtsleeve shown by dotted lines; Fig. 2, a plan view of the shape-retainer in full lines, dotted lines in the same figure serving to illustrate a cufi and a button by which the cuff is fastened on said shape-retainer; Fig. 8, an elevation of one, and Fig. 4, an elevation of another of a pair of members of the shape-retainer aforesaid extended, the scale of the last two figures being less than that of the first two.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, 5 indicates a form-member and 6 a bracemember of a device in accordance with my invention, both members being of sufliciently stifl suitable bendable material.

The form-member 5 is provided adjacent to its ends with button-holes 7, suitably disposed to register with the button-holes of a shirt-sleeve cufl. While I deem it preferable to paste or otherwise permanently fasten the ends of the form-member together, they may be left free if desirable.

The brace-member 6 is of material similar to the form-member, and it is transversely scored at 8 to provide lapping end-flaps 9 that are pasted together or otherwise rigidly united, the remainder of said bracemember being bowed and pasted or otherwise rigidly secured to the form member 5 bent thereon, whereby the device as a whole has the form of a stiff-starched, laundered and uncreased closed cuff-end of a shirtsleeve.

The device above specified is a laundry sundry designed to be placed in the attached stiff-starched and laundered cuff of a shirt sleeve and held thereto by a button, or a tie-string (not shown) engaging the registering buttonholes of said sundry and cuff, whereby the shape of said cuff is retained unbroken while the shirt is in stock of a manufacturer, jobber, retailer or wearer.

From the foregoing, it will be understood that a stiif-starched, laundered, bowed and fastened cuff-end of a shirt-sleeve on a distending brace similar to that herein disclosed, is not liable to become broken or creased in packing or storing, such creasing and soiling along the crease, being commonly experienced in the absence of a shaperetainer for the cuff such as I have provided.

Within the scope of my invention, as herein claimed, the form of the shape-retainer for detachable engagement with a closed stifi? starched and laundered attached cuff of a shirt-sleeve may be varied from that shown without departure from the spirit of my invention or the function of the device as a brace to prevent creasing or breaking of the bow of said cuff.

I claim:

1. A distending brace having the form of the interior of a stiff-starched laundered and bowed cuff-end of a shirt-sleeve and which is detachably retained in the cuff to fill the breakable portion of the same.

2. A distending brace consisting of a form member of sufliciently stifi bendable material and an inner hollow member to which the form member is fastened and bent to therewith have the general shape of a stiffstarched laundered and bowed cuff-end of a shirt sleeve with which said brace is temporarily engageable inside of the same to resist breaking down of the bow of said cuff under pressure thereon.

3. A device consisting of a form member of sufficiently stiff bendable material, and a brace-member of similar material having lapping ends fastened together but otherwise curvilinear in said form bent and fastened thereon, the device as a Whole consleeve when the ends of said form are fas tened together, said form being provided with buttonholes for registration with those of a end in which it may be detachably secured.

. 5. A device consisting of a form member of sufficiently stiif bendable material having apertures therein adjacent to its ends, and a brace-member on which the form-member is fastened and bent to therewith have the general shape of a stiff-starched, laundered and uncreased closed cuii-end of a shirt-sleeve when the ends of said formemember are fastened-togethei the apertures therein being for registration with buttonholes of a cuif having lapping ends fastened together and e the remainder thereof in the formof a bow on which the form member is fastened, the device as a whole having the general shape of a stifi-starched laundered and uncreased closed cuff-end of a shirt-sleeve when the ends of said form-member are fastened to gether the apertures therein being for registration with buttonholes of a cuflf in which said device may be detachably secured.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my'hand at Racine in the county of Racine and State of Wisconsin in the presence of two witnesses.

ROSETTA C. BOWMAN, GRACE E. MILLER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissionerpf Patents, r r 7 Washington, D. G. 

